36 hours of amazing discounts on electronics, fashion and more.
Make this Amazon Prime Day one to remember.
Amazon Prime Day is a day of massive price reductions across the Amazon website. Products on sale will come from across Amazon’s whole range, including homewares and fashion, tech gadgets, books, and even games and toys. Amazon’s own Kindle and Echo brands will also be included in the sale. Most of the discounts will be available for one day only, so it’s important to be prepared. Amazon runs two types of promotion on Prime Day. There are Deals of the Day which run for the whole day, and Lightning Deals which are available for a very limited time only. Amazon Prime Day deals are only available to Amazon Prime members. This means that you must join Prime in order to take advantage of the low prices on Prime Day.
The event is yet to be confirmed by Amazon. The event will occur
July 2019
Amazon Prime Day is held every summer. It was launched in 2015 to celebrate Amazon’s twentieth birthday and has since been taken place annually in July. Amazon Prime Day is usually held around the middle of the month.
The date to put in your diary for this year’s Amazon Prime Day is yet to be announced for this year. This year the big sale will run for a massive 36 hours, far longer than in previous years where deals were for 24 hours only.
The event is yet to be confirmed by Amazon.
We expect Amazon’s own brand products to take centre stage at this year’s Prime Day, with big discounts on the Echo and Kindle ranges. In previous sales Amazon has slashed the prices of its Echo Dot speaker and Kindle Fire tablets, and we expect those prices to come down again this July.
On Prime Day 2017 these were some of the deals available on Amazon own brand devices:
Aside from Amazon’s own brand products, in previous years Prime Day has brought discounts on a range of tech items including laptops, mobile phones, headphones and video games consoles. Discounts like these make Prime Day a great opportunity to smarten up your home.
Some of the most popular promotions on Prime Day 2017 were:
Amazon has yet to announce the 2018 Prime Day deals, and we expect many of the deals to be announced as they are released on Prime Day, without any advance warning. For this reason, we recommend planning your shopping and being prepared to spend time on the Amazon website on Prime Day.
While Amazon is known for changing the prices of its products on a regular basis, you can definitely find some good deals on Prime Day. Amazon typically reduces prices on its own brand products several times a year, such as on Black Friday and on Prime Day. So you’ll find the Echo and Kindle ranges cheaper on Prime Day than on most other days of the year.
You can track the fluctuating prices of products on Amazon on the website CamelCamelCamel. By entering an Amazon UK web address or keywords you can find out whether the same product has previously been sold at a lower or higher price. For example, if you search for Kindle Paperwhite, you can see that while the current price is £109.99, the e-reader was previously sold for £79.99 in November 2017, around the date of the Black Friday sale. The price has also fluctuated between £89.99 and £109.99. Using this price tracker you can find out if the prices you see on Amazon Prime Day are real discounts compared to the previous pricing of the same products.
We consider that Prime Day does offer real deals, with discounts equivalent to the deals on other sale days. Compared to normal shopping days you can definitely find a bargain on Prime Day.
Amazon Prime is a membership programme run by Amazon. You can subscribe to Prime by paying £7.99 a month or £79 a year if you pay annually. Prime membership has many benefit:
If you’re interested in joining Prime but still not quite convinced, Amazon offers a free 30-day trial, so you can try out all of the Prime features for yourself before taking the plunge and paying for it. Simply log in to your Amazon account and choose to try Prime. It’s easy to cancel before the trial runs out if you decide not to proceed. Sign up for your free trial in early July to gain access to all the Amazon Prime Day discounts for free, before you Start paying for Prime.
Prime Day 2017 was one of the biggest shopping days of the year for Amazon customers, who spent a total of 2.41 billion US dollars worldwide. Since the discounts were only available for members of Amazon Prime, the company also added more Prime members in a single day than ever before. In the UK the Amazon Echo was the best-selling device.
Amazon Prime Day is one of a few sale days in Amazon’s calendar. Other days to look out for are Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Black Friday is held annually in November, on the day after Thanksgiving. It marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, and is a big sale day for Amazon. On Black Friday you can expect to see similar discounts to Prime Day, with selected promotions available for customers who are not Prime members.
Cyber Monday is held on the Monday immediately after Black Friday. It was originally Started as a sale day for online shopping. For online retailers like Amazon, it is another big day of discounts. Many retailers begin discounting products on Black Friday and continue throughout the whole weekend to Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday discounts are not restricted to Amazon Prime members.
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